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FOR 

LIBERTY'S 

SAKE 



A PATRIOTIC PLAY 



By 
Stanley M. Rowland 



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For Liberty's 
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By 

Stanley M. Rowland 



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Copyright, 1918, By 
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SEP I i 1918 



CHARACTERS 

Charles Gray. 

Mrs. Gray. 

Jack Gray, their son 

Nellie Gray, their daughter. 

Howard Chase, Jack's chum. 

Gene Fisher, an enhsted soldier. 

Ruth Sherrod, a Red Cross nurse. 

Democracy, \ 

Liberty, V Spirits. 

Peace, / 



For Liberty's Sake 



ACT I. 

"Everywhere in America." 

[An ordinary interior. Table at center around 
which are seated Charles Gray, Mrs. Gray and 
their son Jack. Mr. Gray reading, Mrs. Gray 
sewing or knitting, and Jack reading a news- 
paper. Jack drops the paper and opens the con- 
versation.] 

Jack: Well, father, I see where Uncle Sam 
is urging men to enlist for service in France, and 
it also says that after a certain date no man sub- 
ject to draft can enlist. It is more than likely 
that I shall have to go as a drafted man, and I 
would rather enlist. 

Mr. Gray [dropping paper] : Well, Jack, I 
am glad to know you have the spirit of a fighter 
when fighting is necessary, but still, I would not 
rush hastily into the conflict. There is time 
enough yet and who knows but that our linger- 
ing hopes of peace will be realized before your 
call will come. 

Jack : But some of our boys must go, father, 
as quickly as they can, to fill the vacant places 



6 FOR LIBERTY S SAKE 

in the lines of our allies, for France has already 
bled until she is white and England is looking 
westward across the sea for the help that must 
soon come. 

Mrs. Gray : Jack, why is it that you are con- 
tinually bringing up this war question? I hate 
war and the people who engage in it, and only 
broken homes and blasted hopes and bitter tears 
follow in its wake. No good can come out of 
such an evil. Why should you risk your life 
because the evil designs of a ruler of Europe have 
plunged almost the whole world in war? Be still 
and get this fighting notion out of your head. 

Jack : I hate war also mother, as every sane 
person should, and God hasten the day when 
wars shall be no more. But yet, we have not 
reached the haven of a lasting peace and from 
time to time there are great principles at stake 
that still call for a human sacrifice to the God 
of war. 

Mrs. Gray: Well, I have no patience with 
civilized nations that ought to know better, jump- 
ing at each other's throats like wild animals, just 
because some iron-heeled monarch wills it so. 
People ought to have more sense. 

Jack : It is not the fact that we haven't sense 
enough, mother, but that we allow sin and greed 
to so stifle our better selves that we do not do 
those things which a better judgment would 
dictate. 



FOR liberty's sake 7 

Mrs. Gray : Suppose you and Howard Chase 
were to quarrel on the street and began striking 
each other. Why, the pohce would arrest you 
in five minutes and you would be called to ac- 
count for the offense. But these nations go on 
killing and destroying with no power, apparently, 
that can stop them. 

Jack : But nations as well as men will some- 
where and sometime be called to account for the 
deeds done in the body, and the nation that is 
not founded on liberty and honor must perish 
from the earth. But you mention Howard's 
name, mother, and I had intended to tell you that 
he will enlist in the field artillery on next Thurs- 
day if they will accept him. 

Mr. Gray: What's that? Howard going to 
enlist? Are you sure, Jack? 

Jack: Yes, quite sure. He told sister Nell 
last night and today he asked me to go with him. 

Mr. Gray : Well, I am not greatly surprised. 
Howard's father fought with me at San Juan 
Hill and came back with one coat sleeve empty, 
but not regretting the sacrifice. Howard is of 
the self-same stuff. 

Jack : Yes, mother, you remember that when 
President McKinley called for volunteers father 
was one of the first to go, and I am sure you 
are not sorry now that he helped a little, at least, 
in bringing the freedom of the Stars and Stripes 
to the down-trodden people of Cuba. Why 



8 FOR, liberty's sake 

should I not just as quickly hear the call of the 
oppressed today and be just as willing to battle 
for liberty's sake? 

Mrs. Gray : The two calls are not alike. Cuba 
was a part of our own western world, and natur- 
ally looked to us for protection. But this war 
does not concern us — it belongs to Europe. 

Mr. Gray: I am afraid a mother's love for 
her boy somewhat obscures her vision of things 
that may demand his sacrifice. But we must 
remember that today humanity is a great common 
brotherhood and that we are our brother's keeper 
whether that brother be in America or in Europe, 
or in the faraway isles of the sea. 

Mrs. Gray : Oh, of course, it's no use to talk 
to you men about war. Woman's part is to quiet- 
ly submit and bear the awful burdens of a silent 
grief. I am older now and had hoped that I 
might never see another war, but that hope now 
lies in shattered ruins. Suppose this war is 
fought to a successful finish as you say and that 
you play a part in the awful game, Jack. Could 
all the success that might come to all the great 
allied powers of the world compensate me for 
the loss of a son if you should fall while fight- 
ing? No, Jack, stay here and bide your time. 

Jack: But, mother, if Howard goes ought I 
be any less a man than he is? 

Mrs. Gray: No, Jack, not less a man, but 
perhaps a trifle less of a fighter. It is not neces- 



FOR LIBERTY S SAKE 9 

sary, my son, to be on the field of battle to prove 
your manhood. As to Howard's enlisting, I 
don't believe he will go. 

Jack [rising and zvalking over to window] : 
I should be only too glad to prove my manhood 
in other ways than in war, but when the battle 
is raging then my proving ground is out there 
where the call is the loudest. [Looks out win- 
dow.] Howard is coming now. He can speak 
for himself. 

[Enter Howard and Nell. General greeting.] 

Mr. Gray : Well, Howard, Jack tells us that 
you are thinking some of enlisting in the artillery. 
Of course we hate to think of your going, but 
then your father was a fighter before you. 

Howard : Yes, Mr. Gray, I should count my- 
self a coward to hesitate to enlist in a cause even 
more righteous than that in which my father en- 
listed. I shall take the examination Thursday 
and shall report at once for duty. 

Nellie: Oh, I think that's great, mother, 
don't you? Of course we hate to see him go, 
but just think how manly it is to be a soldier and 
fight for the flag we love. 

Mrs. Gray: Yes, that is just a thoughtless 
girl's notion of war. Caught by the flash of uni- 
forms and muskets you forget the real side of it. 
Suppose he should not come back? 

Nellie: Oh, mother, you mustn't think of 
that ; but still we know that somebody's boys will 



10 FOR liberty's sake 

not come back. But we shall ever cherish their 
memory as a sacred heritage won for us by the 
heroes of war. 

Mrs. Gray : Those words sound nice, of 
course, and maybe all of us would like to be 
heroes, but we don't particularly like that way of 
winning the title. I would rather be a living hero 
of peace than a dead hero of war. 

Howard: But, Mrs. Gray, our country is now 
in war and for the time, at least, we must play 
the game of war whether we like it or not. 
When this dreadful struggle is over, perhaps we 
can all then be true heroes of peace. 

Nellie: We must remember, mother, that 
heroes of peace are possible because of heroes of 
war. Those of us who have enjoyed the long 
periods of peace in our own country must never 
forget that that peace was secured at a terrible 
sacrifice. We are insolvent debtors to those who 
fought and died and to those who fought and 
lived at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and Antietam 
and Gettysburg. Now it is our turn to fight in 
order that peace may become universal and more 
lasting. Oh, I wish I were a man ! 

Mrs. Gray : Well, at times like these I almost 
wish I was a man, too, for I sometimes think it 
would be easier to be out on the battle line than 
to be at home watching and waiting. 

Mr. Gray: Jack, has also told us that you 
have talked the matter over together, and he now 



FOR liberty's SAKE 11 

awaits his mother's consent to enlist with you. 
Much as I love him, I love this old flag- [pointing 
to American ^ag] the more. Every stripe and 
every star in its silken folds speak with the pa- 
triot voices of the past and for such a flag 
no sacrifice can be too great. Fight for it to the 
last ditch, for it has always floated over fields of 
battle where liberty and democracy were at stake. 
May God bless you, boys, and keep you under 
the shadow of his wing. 

Jack : Well, mother, I wish you might feel as 
father does about my going, but I am sure you 
will no longer forbid me, even though you may 
not willingly consent. 

Mrs. Gray: I do not wish to be counted as 
one who does not love the country of their birth, 
but to oft'er my boy as a sacrifice upon the unholy 
altar of war, I never can consent to that. If you 
go, a mother's love and a mother's blessing will 
follow you to the ends of the earth. Further 
than that, God must be my judge. 

[Mrs. Gray breaks dozun and weeps.] 

Mr. Gray: A mother's love is too strong for 
her to say go, but her heart is beating with ours. 
[Puts his hands on Jack's and Howard's shoul- 
ders.] Go, and we bid you God-speed as we 
pledge our allegiance to the flag we love. 

[Mrs. Gray remains zveeping. Others stand 
at salute and repeat the pledge.] 



12 FOR liberty's sake 

All : "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the 
republic for which it stands. One nation indi- 
visible, with liberty and justice to all." 

[curtain.] 



ACT 11. 

"Somewhere in France." 

[American soldiers in camp. A tent zuith arms 
stacked at back of stage. Camp-fire dimly burn- 
ing. Howard Chase and Gene Fisher on sen- 
try duty at camp. They are seated on boxes at 
opposite sides of the stage. Low lights. Low 
conversation.] 

Howard: Well, Gene, I have no trouble in 
keeping awake tonight. This was a terrible day 
for the 36th. Almost half our number are lying 
out there tonight far away from home and friends 
and on a foreign shore. Our boys followed the 
flag into the thickest of the fight and many of 
them never came out of it. My God ! but war is 
a fearful thing, and to think that civilized men 
will engage in it ! 

Gene: Yes, Howard, we must at least hope 
that some day it will be over forever and that this 
terrible struggle in which we are now engaged is 
helping to hasten that glorious day. We are here 
to slay and to kill, and yet I have a horror to- 
night lest my hand should bear the stain of blood 
of even one who has fallen on the other side 
today. 



FOR liberty's sake 13 

Howard : Memories come crowding in upon 
my frenzied brain tonight, until I am almost be- 
side myself. I am thinking of a home across 
the sea where a father and mother and sister are 
anxiously waiting for one who will never return. 
And that is only one of millions of homes where 
the long hours of painful silence will be rudely 
broken by a glance at the list of the dead. I 
would not for all the world be one who is in any 
way responsible for such heart breaks, but if 
they needs must come then I will fight on to 
hasten the time when they shall be no more. I 
think even now I can hear the voices of the dead 
from over the field of battle out yonder. They 
seem to call to us and urge us onward, ever 
onward. 

Gene : I can not conceive of the dead having 
voices, but there is some mysterious something 
that seems to tell us that we must not give up 
the cause for which they have given the last full 
measure of devotion. It must be still onward 
for liberty's sake. 

Howard: Six brave fellows manned the gun 
with me this morning. Tonight only two an- 
swered roll-call. The others are out there under 
the stars and Jack Gray among them. A better 
or braver lad never fought than Jack. He went 
down in the thick of the fight and only after he 
was wounded for the third time. Just as we 
shifted our position to the ridge beyond the woods 
he raised himself feebly and motioned to me as 
if he had some message to tell. It broke my 



14 FOR liberty's sake 

heart to turn away, but I was still playing the 
game of war and couldn't turn back. 

Gene : He will doubtless be cared for tonight 
by the ambulance corps, although they are almost 
worked to death. Some of these nurses are go- 
ing day and night with scarce an hour of sleep 
and are bringing relief to friend and foe alike. 

Howard: Yes, strange as it may seem, when 
war has tried its best to tear and mangle, these 
angels of mercy come along and try to make men' 
out of what's left. Their work is a work of 
mercy and love. 

Gene : It seems so strange, Jack, that in spite 
of all the evil and wrong in the world, there is 
still so much of good and righteousness. God 
has intended that some day the good will conquer 
and that everyone shall live to help his fellow 
man. Hark ! I hear a sound. Someone is ap- 
proaching. [Both rise.] 

Howard: They are coming from the direc- 
tion of the hospital, but it seems strange at this 
late hour. 

Gene: Halt! Who comes there? 

A Voice Outside: "A friend — Ruth Sher- 
rod of the Red Cross." 

Gene: Advance, friend. 

[Ruth Sherrod enters.] 

Howard: You are out from camp late to- 
night, but doubtless you have found many calls 
after the deadly work of today. 



FOR liberty's sake 15 

Ruth : Yes, our field hospital is full to over- 
flowing, but we are doing the best we can until 
more help comes. I am on my way now to a 
tent where many are lying sorely wounded. We 
have no time for needed rest, for one can not rest 
when such work is to be done. 

Howard: Perhaps you may have adminis- 
tered to some of the members of the 36th, for 
many of them did not come back tonight. 

Ruth : I remember one fellow especially. 
Jack Gray was his name. 

Howard: Did he have any message? 

Ruth : He begged for a comrade by the name 
of Chase — Howard Chase. Do you know him ? 

Howard: I am Howard Chase. 

Ruth : Then I have a message for you. He 
was brought in to us too far gone for much 
relief, and although alert and active mentally, he 
seemed to know that life was brief for him. He 
gave me the name and address of his mother 
and had me promise to write and break the news 
to her, telling her that he fought to the last ditch 
for the old flag. He also mentioned the name of 
his father and a sister Nell. Then there seemed 
to be something on his mind that he did not want 
to tell me and he asked for Howard Chase. I 
told him that I did not know such a person, and 
besides, it would be impossible to find him while 
the battle was still on. So he begged me to 
sometime find Howard Chase and tell him if 



16 - FOR liberty's sake 

God spared him to bear this message to his mother 
back across the sea: "Tell her," said he, "that I 
played the game and lost, but that I do not regret 
the step I took. I do not count my life as much 
and it is only one of millions that have been 
sacrificed to this merciless God of war, but rising 
out of this sacrifice we can now see the sacred 
figures of democracy and liberty and peace com- 
ing to rule forever over a reunited world. May 
her vision of these spirits be so clear that she may 
feel them ministering to her in place of her boy 
who will not return. I did what I thought was 
right and God must be my judge." With the 
mention of her name he was gone. I trust that 
God will protect you and allow you to bear thi§ 
message to the broken-hearted mother waiting 
over there. Good night. 

[Taps sound over the camp.] 

[curtain.] 



ACT III. 

"For Liberty's Sake." 

[Same interior as Act I. Mrs. Gray seated at 
the table dozing. She soon falls fast asleep. 
Enter Spirit of Democracy, hearing a Hag zuith 
the words, ''Equality and Justice.''] 

Democracy: In the days of old might made 
right, and he who could oppress his fellow man 
was looked upon as his natural superior. The 
great institution of human slavery in all its forms 



FOR liberty's sake 17 

was based upon this belief and for ages thou- 
sands of people were shackled and chained to the 
will and desire of others. Gradually in the hearts 
of men there developed a sentiment that there 
were certain rights that should be common to all 
people, weak and strong alike, and that the weak 
must be sustained in such rights by the power 
of the strong. In the accomplishment of this end 
the earth has run red with human blood and the 
most costly sacrifices have been heaped upon the 
altar of equality and justice. But from this altar 
the spirit of democracy has now risen full-fledged 
and today stands knocking at the very last re- 
doubts of the iron-heeled monarchs of the world. 
Down-trodden people of the past are mingling 
their voices with the liberated hosts of the present 
to tell us that democracy is the 'cherished hope 
of man and is precious because of sacrifice. 
[Exit.] 

[Enter Spirit of Liberty with American ^ag.] 

Liberty: I am come to set the captive free, 
to loose the shackles of the bondmen and to lift 
down-trodden men into the glorious light of a 
freedom that is rightly theirs. I am a child of 
battle, born and nurtured amid the din and roar 
of musketry, christened with the blood of millions 
of heroic men and women and dedicated to undy- 
ing struggle for universal freedom. I have never 
drawn the sword in a spirit of conquest or re- 
venge, but in the spirit of defense for the weak 
where the fight has been one for liberty's sake. 
Those things we love the most have cost us heav- 



18 FOR liberty's sake 

ily in sacrifice and today people who have known 
me and have reaped the rich rewards I bring, 
love me even unto death. The blood of my pro- 
tectors has enriched many a sacred spot and to- 
day millions of silent voices cry out to me, ''On- 
ward — ever onward." [Exit.] 

[Enter Spirit of Peace bearing white flag.] 

Peace: Ever since the world began, man has 
been struggling with man for supremacy, and as 
the years went on he began to dream of a time 
when wars should be no more and when peace 
should reign over the nations of the earth. In 
this terrible struggle upward the vision of this 
dream has never vanished, but like a will-o'-the- 
wisp it has hovered over every battlefield, and 
thence it has led on and ever on into the distant 
future. In our efforts to overtake it wreck and 
ruin have marked our pathway. Countless ranks 
of brave-hearted men have marched away to do 
their part in sacrifice to lessen the burden of 
other men's unrighteousness. Mothers and wives 
and sisters at home have been bowed down under 
the burden of a silent grief and have waited and 
watched for those who never returned. But in 
all these sacrifices there has been the striving of 
the human soul to do true and noble deeds of 
service, and by such deeds the world has been 
lifted from its selfishness and grief to peace and 
brotherhood. Such measureless devotion will se- 
cure for all time governments of the people, by 
the people and for the people, and will make the 
welcome cry of the angel again ring true : 
"Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, 
good-will to men." [Exit.] 



FOR liberty's sake 19 

[Mr. Gray, Nell and Howard Chase enter 
and Mrs. Gray awakes from her sleep.] 

Mr. Gray : Well, mother, we have been to the 
station and brought back with us about all that 
remains of the fighting 36th. 

Mrs. Gray [greeting Howard heartily] : 
Thank God, Howard, that you were left to come 
back to us, for next to Jack we have watched 
most anxiously for you. 

Howard : Yes, Mrs. Gray, knew you would 
be thinking of me, but I have often wished that 
Jack might have been spared and that I rnight 
have been left buried in the war-torn soil of 
France. 

Mrs. Gray : No, Howard, that was not to be. 
It is not for us to question God's ways of trying 
the human heart, but, hard as it may be at times, 
we must submit ourselves to his guidance. A 
letter from a Red Cross nurse brought the awful 
news to us and for a time we reeled and stag- 
gered under the blow, but by God's help we are 
still struggling on. Was there any message from 
him, Howard? 

Howard: Yes, Mrs. Gray, there was. He 
fell in the thick of the fight and I was forced to 
move with our battery, leaving him upon the 
field. But that night, while we were on guard 
duty at camp, a Red Cross nurse passed on her 
errands of mercy and asked for Howard Chase. 
She was with Jack at the last and after he had 



20 FOR liberty's sake 

asked her to break the news to you, he told her 
to find Howard Chase and have him bear this 
word to you : 'Tell her that I played the game 
and lost, but I do not regret it. I am only one 
of many to give my life to the God of war that 
out of this sacrifice democracy and liberty and 
peace may come to rule over a suffering world. 
I did what I thought was best for liberty's sake." 
They buried him with some of his comrades not 
far from where they fell and I still hold a record 
of that spot. 

Mrs. Gray: Perhaps I loved him too much 
and was selfish when I told him not to go. I 
couldn't see it any other way then, but somehow, 
just tonight, I have seen a clearer vision of what 
it all means. It seemed like a dream to me and 
there were figures standing before me and I 
thought I could hear them speaking. These spir- 
its seemed to rise one by one from an altar on 
w'hich millions had been sacrificed, and the spirits 
said that from such as these they sprang and 
came to bring justice and liberty to all mankind 
and a righteous peace to a waiting world. Deep 
as my sorrow is, it is easier now to bear, for I 
am beginning to see some reason for it. Here, 
with you, I want to pledge my allegiance to the 
flag and the country that are now more dear to 
me than ever before because of sacrifice. 

[They stand at salute and repeat pledge used at 
close of Act /.] 

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